fundinghttp://www.ngaus.org/taxonomy/term/7/all
enVA Choice Attracting More Patients http://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/va-choice-attracting-more-patients
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p></div></div></div>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:24:25 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2126 at http://www.ngaus.orgBudget Battle Continues, CR Likelyhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/budget-battle-continues-cr-likely
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p></div></div></div>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:56:29 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2110 at http://www.ngaus.orgGAO Slams A-10 Retirement Planhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/gao-slams-10-retirement-plan
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p></div></div></div>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:10:06 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2092 at http://www.ngaus.orgHouse Passes Defense Spending Billhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/house-passes-defense-spending-bill
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(June 16, 2015) The House passed a defense spending bill June 11 that has funds for several unique National Guard efforts, including border-security operations, the State Partnership Program (SPP), the Youth ChalleNGe Program and Counterdrug Program.</p>
<p>The Senate is expected to take up its version of the bill this week, but it faces tougher scrutiny in the upper chamber where Democrats want to address the spending caps put in place by the Budget Control Act of 2011.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:51:08 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2067 at http://www.ngaus.orgSenate Expands VA Choice Programhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/senate-expands-va-choice-program
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(June 9, 2015) The Senate voted recently to expand a program of the Department of Veterans Affairs that gives more veterans access to private care. The unanimous vote allows veterans to use the VA Choice program if they live within 40 miles of a VA facility that provides limited care, according to a report in <em>Army Times</em>.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:25:03 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2059 at http://www.ngaus.orgHeritage Paintings Off the Drawing Boardhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/heritage-paintings-drawing-board
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(June 2, 2015) New National Guard heritage paintings have been erased from the Pentagon budget by the Senate Armed Services Committee and its chairman, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., according to a report in <em>Roll Call</em>, a publication that covers Capitol Hill. The committee's version of the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act does not include $250,000 the National Guard Bureau sought to produce four new paintings.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:22:37 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2051 at http://www.ngaus.orgArmy Panel Hears NGAUS, AGAUS, Army Brasshttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/army-panel-hears-ngaus-agaus-army-brass
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(May 26, 2015) The NGAUS president addressed the initial public hearing last week of the National Commission on the Future of the Army in Arlington, Va. Retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett offered five recommendations for the panel to consider.</p>
<p>The eight-member panel was created by Congress to determine how the Army should look to meet coming threats. A major part of its charge is to determine the role of the reserve component, both the Guard and the Army Reserve. Its report is due to Congress Feb. 1, 2016.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 26 May 2015 19:11:27 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2044 at http://www.ngaus.orgNGAUS Offers Five Recommendations to Army Commissionhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/ngaus-offers-five-recommendations-army-commission
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>WASHINGTON (May 20, 2015) — The National Guard Association of the United States today offered the National Commission on the Future of the Army five basic recommendations to fully leverage the capabilities and cost-effectiveness of the Army National Guard.</p>
<p>Retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the NGAUS president, made the recommendations during testimony to the commission in Arlington, Va.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 20 May 2015 17:31:12 +0000richard.arnold@ngaus.org2037 at http://www.ngaus.orgDefense Bill Moves On Despite Veto Threathttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/defense-bill-moves-despite-veto-threat
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(May 19, 2015) The House passed its version of the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act last week and the Senate will consider its final take on the bill next month. But the entire effort faces a White House veto threat.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 19 May 2015 21:18:59 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2036 at http://www.ngaus.orgGuard Boss: Sequestration Harms Forcehttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/guard-boss-sequestration-harms-force
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(May 5, 2015) The chief of the National Guard Bureau sounded a warning about the impact of sequestration on the National Guard in testimony to a Senate subcommittee last week.</p>
<p>"I am concerned that under sequestration, the nation will have its smallest National Guard since the end of the Korean War, despite the American population roughly doubling since that time," Gen. Frank Grass told the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on defense.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 05 May 2015 21:28:22 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org2004 at http://www.ngaus.orgLt. Governors Show Support for Guardhttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/lt-governors-show-support-guard
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<p>(April 21, 2015) President Barack Obama has been asked by 25 state and territory seconds-in-command to rethink the Army's proposal in the fiscal 2016 budget to cut manpower in the Army National Guard by 8,000 and move its AH-64 Apache helicopters to the active component.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:53:15 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org1978 at http://www.ngaus.orgU.S. Leads World in Defense Spendinghttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/us-leads-world-defense-spending
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report </em></p>
<p>(April 14, 2015) The United States remains the world's leader in defense spending despite a drop of 20 percent since 2010, according to a report released Monday from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia have significantly increased their defense spending.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:33:34 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org1962 at http://www.ngaus.orgTAGs to Congress: Keep C-130s Flyinghttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/tags-congress-keep-c-130s-flying
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<p>(March 24, 2015) The 21 adjutants general who have C-130s in their states are asking congressional leaders to provide the Air Force with flexibility regarding a modernization program for the fleet and to maintain a fleet of at least 308 aircraft.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:41:00 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org1913 at http://www.ngaus.orgNGAUS' Duffy Describes Claim Imbalancehttp://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/ngaus-duffy-describes-claim-imbalance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Washington Report</em></p>
<p>(March 24, 2015) At the urging of the NGAUS legislative director, lawmakers promised last week to investigate a disability-compensation claim process that seems to favor active-component members over those in the National Guard and Reserve.</p>
<p>Retired Col. Pete Duffy brought up the problem during a joint hearing of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees. He pointed out that Guard and Reserve claims were being denied on appeal at more than four times the rate of claims from active-duty service members.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:38:26 +0000rebecca.autrey@ngaus.org1912 at http://www.ngaus.orgWhat's Next for Army Commission?http://www.ngaus.org/blog/15/04/whats-next-army-commission
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The White House and leaders of the House and Senate armed services committees named their picks to the National Commission on the Future of the Army last week. While NGAUS regrets no National Guard general officers were selected, we look forward to engaging with the commission and its staff.</p>
<p>So what’s next?</p>
<p>By law, commissioners have 30 days after their appointments to hold an initial meeting. After selecting a chair and vice chair, the really hard work begins.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:37:50 +0000andrea.peterson@ngaus.org1910 at http://www.ngaus.org